Amon Rudh

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Then suddenly there was a rock-wall before them, flat-faced and sheer, forty feet high, maybe, but dusk dimmed the sky above them and guess...

Flat-earthers, and 'kindly enclyning'

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Physically considered, the Earth is a globe; all the authors of the high Middle Ages are agreed on this. In the earlier 'Dark' Ages,...

Doppelgaenger...

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Her heart sprang; there, a good way off-thanks to a merciful God - it was, materialized from nowhere in a moment. She knew it at once, howe...

An unliterary man

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only... The re-reader is looking not for actual surprises (which can come only...

Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (Last)

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Halt goes for ever from that stroke great Morgoth; but the king he broke, and would have hewn and mangled thrown to wolves...

Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (IV)

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Thrice was Fingolfin with great blows to his knees beaten, thrice he rose still leaping up beneath the cloud aloft to...

Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (III)

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Fingolfin like a shooting light beneath a cloud, a stab of white, sprang then aside, and Ringil drew like ice that gleameth cold and blue, h...

Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (II)

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[Image: Ted Nasmith] Then Morgoth came. For the last time in those great wars he dared to climb ...
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Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (I)

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Over the past 7 years a significant number of hits on this site have been searching for Tolkien's "Fingolfin and Morgoth" -- ...

Et in Sempiternum Pereant

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"The many people who have bought The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories since its publication in 1986 may well have been perplexed o...

Inkling Tweets (Click here)

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"Tweets have become a contemporay Haiku, at their best artfully worded moments of linguistic economy, abbreviation, and beauty." ...

Jack's Death and Funeral

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[Quarry Church, Headington] To Priscilla Tolkien (from J.R.R. Tolkien) [Written four days after the death of C. S. Lewis] 26 November 1...

Erotic Literature?

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Wayland Young: Now what in your view is overall right or wrong in modern erotic literature? CS Lewis: Well, what repels me - that's pe...

Tolkien Holidays (II)

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[Belmont Hotel, Sidmouth] To Christopher Tolkien Begun about June 2nd. 1971. My dearest C, I am sorry that I have be...

Tolkien Holidays

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John & Priscilla Tolkien The Tolkien Family Album

Agaparg

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"(Jack) was a man noted for his generosity.   He helped with the education of many children by means of a secret charity fund known as ...
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"... Mrs. Moore died."

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Jack expressed no relief at the lifting of this millstone from around his neck, but he became happier and more relaxed than he had been for ...

Lewis on Dirty Stories

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"Oh well, the one reason I want to keep up some censorship is that the so-called dirty story, let's say the indecent story, as one ...

Alliterative poetry from LOTR

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Here we find a beautiful example, taken from the end of "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields": We heard of the horns in the hills ...

Jack's Death

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Jack put his affairs in order, did his best to provide for his brother and his stepsons, and answered his letters as he always had. Few of ...